Twine holder



' H. L. DREMANN.

TWINE HOLDER. APPLICATXON FILED 05c. 21, 1-921. I

Patented Nov. 28,

T all whom it may concern Patented Nov. 28,1922,

staresear-am ema tanner L. DEED/(ANN, or QUINCY, rumors.

' TWINE HOLDER.

Application filed December 21, 1921. iser'iaiiro. 523,881.

Be itknown that I, HENRY L. DREMANN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Q uincy,in the-county of Adams, State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Twine Holder; and I do hereby .declare the following'to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inyention, such as. will enable others skilled in the art to which it ,appertains' tomake and usethe same.

- twine holder, and to provide a guide opening; in the twine holder through which guide opening twine passes and is passed through" spaced apertures carried bythe weighted member on each side of the pintles.

A further object is to provide spaced apertures ad acent the free end of the weighted member and through which apertures the twine passes so that its freeend will hang downwardly where it can be easily reached by an operator and the weight arm tilted downwardly against the action of its weight to a position where thetwine will easily feed through. the spaced apertures.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts; as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a twine i holder.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view through the arm supporting member taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a top plan view of the weighted arm showing the spaced twine receiving apertures. f

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view through a portion of theweighted arm and taken on line 44 of Figure 3.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1v designates a metallic frame, the upper arched portion2, ofwhich arches the'ball of cord 8, and the lower transversely dis-i I posed portion 4 hassecured thereon a cord receiving cone ,5, which supports the ball of twine3. Secured to the arched portion 2 of the frame 1 by means of rivets 6 is a U shaped bracket 7 in the transverselportion 8 of whicha supporting eye 9 is secured. The

eye 9 is adapted to rece1ve=asupporting cord whereby the device as a wholemay be sus pendedabove a wrapping counter orthe like. Pivotally mounted, in bearings 1-1. of

the arms 10 of the U-shaped member 7 are pintles 12 of the weighted arm 13. The arm 13. adjacent the pintles 12.,is provided with a weight 14 which normally maintains the i end of the weighted arm 13 in raised position as shown in Figure 1. The twine 16 extends upwardly through a guide aper ture 17 disposed in the arched portion 2 of i the frame and in the same vertical plane as Y the pintles 12, then passes upwardly through the aperture 18 located rearwardly of the pintle and thence over the portion 19 and downwardly through the aperture 20 forwardly of the pintles 12. The cord after it leaves the aperture 20 extends forwardly under the arm l8and then passes upwardly through an aperture 21 adjacent the end of the arm and then downwardly through the aperture 22 and has its free end 23 disposed above a wrapping counter. When the oper ator desires to use the cord, he reachesup- I wardly grasps the free end 23 and pulls downwardly on the same, which'action will rock the weighted arm '13 to a position where the cord will easily move through the apertures 18 and 20'and the apertures 22 and 21 and will feed to the operator during a bundle wrapping operation.

After a bun- I dle wrapping operation, the cord tied, 2'

broken and then released, the free end will be raised clear of the wrapping counter by the weighted arm 13 thereby positioning the free end where it will not interfere'with the preparation for wrapping the next bundle. T v

From the above it will be seen that twine holding and feed means therefore is pro one wherein the twine feeds through spaced apertures in a weighted arm in such a manner that when the arm is pivoted downwardly the twine will easily feed through vided, which is simple in constructionand j means for supporting a roll of twine on said frame, said frame arching the roll of twine a U-shaped bracket having its arms extending downwardly and secured to the arched portion of the frame and having its transverse portion spaced above the upper end of the framemeans carried by said transversely disposed portion of the U- shaped bracket whereby the frame as a wholemaybe supported spaced from a desk,

anarm pivoted in the U-shaped bracket by means of integral pintl'es mounted in bearings of the opposite arms of the bracket, the pivoted arm being provided with a weight at one of its ends, the other end of the 'pivotedarmbeing remotely disposed in relationto the pivotal point of the arm, said arm ad acent its pivotal point being provided with-spaced apertures, one on each side of the pivotal point for the reception of the free end of the cord after the same has been passed through an aperture in the arched portion of the frame the outer end of the pivoted arm being provided with spaced apertures through which the free end of the cord passes and feeds.

2-. The combination with a twine holder frame having a roll of twine thereon, of an arm pivoted above said frame and having a long and a short arm a weight carried by said short arm, the arm on each sideof its pivotal point being provided with spaced apertures for the reception ofthe free end of the twine, the outer end of the long arm of the pivoted arm being provided with spaced apertures through which the free end of the twine passes and feeds.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY L. DREMANN.

Witnesses GERHARD J. SANDER, CARL H. SToLLMER. 

